Enter the Drow by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-08-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Cheyenne gently closed the doors to her mom’s bedroom and headed down the upstairs hall. When she passed the open door of the breakfast room at the back of the house, she found Ember sitting in one of the armchairs facing the windows. “Hey. You going to sleep in here?”

Ember turned in the slightly angled armchair facing the curving bay window and offered a weak smile. “Doesn’t matter where I am. I don’t think I’m gonna be sleeping tonight.”

“Yeah, it does kinda seem impossible.” Cheyenne crossed the room and sat in the other cream-colored wingback armchair beside her friend. The valley behind the Summerlin estate and the forest stretching far below were now shrouded in darkness. She saw more of her own reflection in the window than anything else outside. “We should talk about what happened earlier.”

“Probably, yeah,” Ember snorted. “I’m not sorry I did it.”

“I don’t want you to be.” Cheyenne drummed her fingers on the upholstered armrests. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have let it get that far.”

“No, you shouldn’t have.”

Nodding, Cheyenne stared at the floor in front of them. “I remember the whole thing, Em. Me being a serious asshole. Trying to fight you. And your spell. Which, by the way, was pretty badass if I ignore the part about you casting it on me.”

A humorless chuckle escaped the fae. “Well, thanks, I guess. Maleshi and L’zar thought you were already gone. You know, that the blight had taken over.”

“Seriously?”

“Yeah.” Ember smoothed her hair away from her face and shook her head. “I knew you weren’t. They weren’t going to do anything, so I had to.”

“I was there the whole time, only I couldn’t do anything about it.” Cheyenne kicked off her black Vans one at a time and pulled her legs up onto the armchair. “Like, I split into two different people, one who was seriously confused, and the other one who was taking over and wanted to rip all three of you apart.”

“That’s the one I tied up with magic and tossed on the stairs.” Slowly, Ember turned to look at her friend, her eyes wide beneath a concerned frown. “The poison spread all the way to your eyes, Cheyenne. All black. Not like when you break out the black fire and go full-on drow, but like that skaxen village by the transport station. It was fucked up.”

“I know.”

“It’s not like I enjoyed attacking my best friend and forcing a healing potion down her throat, by the way.”

“Yeah, I figured that went without saying.”

“But you’re still pissed at me for doing it.” Ember raised her eyebrows. “I can tell.”

“I’m not pissed at you. I mean, I didn’t enjoy it, but I know you did what you had to do.”

The room was silent for a moment, then Ember took a deep breath. “Look, I don’t think I’ve tried to tell you what to do or how to do it. At least, not when you’re thinking clearly. When I do say something, it’s because I know you’re not in the right place to think things through on your own.

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